Chapter 4 Jinxia Mountain
Since Chen Jiazhuang said goodbye to his aunt and little sister, every day as soon as the sky was bright, Shen Cheng got up and hurried away. When the sun is about to set, you will find a temple or Taoist temple to spend the night, and you can't do it to deal with it for a night in the suburbs near the populated people.
Because after all, in Shen Cheng's view, monks are much kinder than people in the world, but in fact, this is not necessarily the case! Where did he know that in fact, monks and Taoists are no different from worldly people, and there are also good and evil!
Shen Cheng couldn't remember how many villages and towns he passed along the way, the smaller ones were not as good as Nanhe Town and Chenjiazhuang, and the larger ones were much more prosperous.
Especially after passing through Yuanzhou City, the capital of Yuanzhou, it was the first time that Shen had seen such a large and prosperous town as he grew up. There are not only high walls and moats outside the city of Yuanju, but also soldiers guarding the gates of the city, checking all kinds of people coming and going.
However, when those soldiers saw Shen Cheng such a little hairy child, they simply didn't mean to come forward and ask! Thinking about it, they also felt that he was so young and alone, it was impossible for him to cause any harm to the city!
In the city of Yuanzhou, the streets are wide and crisscrossed, the shops and pavilions are lined up, and the merchants and stall owners are selling in the streets to solicit business; the flow of people is bustling, and the guests wearing all kinds of gorgeous costumes are in groups of threes and twos, drinking, drinking, drinking, talking, laughing, and laughing.
In Shen Cheng's opinion, compared to Nanhe Town, where he was born, it is many times better, which really opened Shen Cheng's eyes, who had never seen the world!
But after seeing these dazzling scenes, Shen Cheng just let out a few sighs in his heart. He knows that such a flashy life does not belong to people like himself!
Don't look at Shen as a young adult, but he doesn't have a lot of eyes. The poverty of his family made him develop a habit since he was a child, that is, to keep a low profile in doing things for others. When he arrived in the city, he bought some food and necessities with a small amount of loose silver that he had prepared in advance, and then passed through the city and continued his journey without attracting anyone's attention. He knew that this was the way to get himself in as little trouble as possible!
Fortunately, there were no dangers and no dangers along the way, and Shen Cheng finally came to the boundary of Jinxia Mountain more than half a month after leaving Chenjiazhuang.
Mt. Kinka is a mountain peak in the northeast of Wonshu, one of the three major states of Ausaki Province.
This mountain is not very big, it is only seven or eight miles long from north to south, three or four miles wide from east to west, and the highest is two or three hundred zhang. Compared to the many famous mountains and rivers, it is just a small mountain!
However, a few miles to the east of this mountain is the sea, which is the first place where the sun rises every morning in Aozaki Province, hence the name "Mt. Jinxia".
The vegetation on Jinxia Mountain is dense, the grass and trees are lush, and the sound of streams murmuring, ape crying and birdsong is heard from time to time in the mountains. A few white clouds drifted by on the top of the mountain, sometimes obscuring the dazzling sun. At the foot of the mountain, the endless clearing was overgrown with knee-high wildflowers and grass. There is only one path on the side of the mountain, which winds and turns to the top of the mountain, which is really a beautiful scenery of paradise.
Last night's heavy rain made the air very fresh, and Shen Cheng set off early in the morning, leaving the dilapidated Taoist temple where he was staying, and drove for half a day to the foot of this Jinxia Mountain.
At this time, Shen Cheng was standing at the foot of the mountain looking at the top of the mountain, his nose was full of the smell of earth and the fragrance of flowers and plants, and there was no longer a little tired feeling on his body, but a feeling of intoxication that arose spontaneously.
Such a beautiful scenery in front of him made Shen Cheng's melancholy mood much better due to the loss of his father and mother and the separation of his relatives for many days! He took a deep breath of fresh air, and then looked back at the direction he came, and couldn't help but let him look forward to and plan the road he would take in the future.
After a while, Shen Cheng came back to his senses. Groping through the placket of his chest, he pulled out the cloth bag he had brought from home. When I opened the cloth bag, there was a small cloth bag embroidered with the word "Tong" in sky blue with fine gold thread, and the mouth of the cloth bag was tightened and knotted with yellow rope.
Shen Cheng untied the yellow rope and opened the bag, and carefully took out a paper crane folded from yellow paper.
The yellow paper used to origami cranes is very thin, different from the rough yellow paper used by ordinary people, and the feel is more delicate; some places on the paper cranes are still bare with handwriting that seems to be written with cinnabar and other paints, but Shen Cheng looked at the strange strokes, but he didn't recognize the words at all!
Although the crane is a little wrinkled, it is not broken and is still very neatly preserved, and there is a faint white halo on the surface. On both sides of the head of the crane, there is a small transparent bead, and the sunlight shines on the bead. The two wings of the paper crane are glued together by the solidified wax.
Looking at the paper crane in front of him, Shen Cheng was a little embarrassed, how should he use this little guy in his hand? Could it really be that he directly removed the wax seal on his wings? Along the way, he opened the cloth bag more than once to check on the paper crane! According to Shen Cheng's thoughts, the wax on the wings of the paper crane should have played the role of sealing.
But he didn't dare to open the wax seal easily, if it was a wrong step, or if the paper crane really came to life and flew somewhere else after removing the wax, wouldn't it be regret that he couldn't find a place to cry!
"Anyway, I also arrived at this Jinxia Mountain, and if there is no paper crane, I will search the entire mountain, so I should always be able to find the immortal master, right?"
Shen Cheng touched his forehead and thought for a moment, then took a deep breath, and finally made up his mind not to hesitate anymore! He used his hand to gently break and scrape off the wax on the wings of the paper crane. The action was very careful, he was afraid that he would break this little thing with a force!
When he removed all the wax seals, he saw that the white halo on the paper crane in his hand had brightened slightly. Shen Cheng held up the paper crane with both hands, his eyes widened nervously, and he watched what would happen.
Sure enough, after a while, the paper crane slowly straightened up in his hand as if he was doing a trick in pain, and then his body began to expand gradually. When it was fully unfolded, the little thing looked as if it had just woken up, tilted its head very anthropomorphically, stretched its wings upwards vigorously, and tried to flapped it a few times.
This action startled Shen Cheng, and he almost wanted to wrap his hands together to wrap the paper crane, but he still stabilized his mind and didn't do it.
After the little paper crane finished these actions, he tilted his head and looked Shen Cheng up and down with a small eye, it was very funny and cute, but Shen Cheng couldn't help but dare to laugh!
Suddenly, the paper crane flapped its wings again and really flew into the air, and then slowly flew to the top of the head at a height of Zhang Gao, and the next moment it flew in a certain direction to the top of the mountain without turning its head.
After a while, Shen Cheng, who was staring at the paper crane in a daze, came back to his senses as if he had woken up from a dream, tightened the package on his body and rushed to chase after him!
However, the speed of this little thing's flight was obviously a few points faster than Shen Cheng's! In addition, the flight route was not along the path up the mountain. By the time Shen Cheng chased him to the bottom of the mountain, the white light had already left the path up the mountain and entered the forest, which really made Shen Cheng dumbfounded.
What's more of his headache is still behind, this up the hill is not so easy than walking normally, running a few steps on the flat ground doesn't feel like anything, running up the hill?
"Hey, don't fly so fast, wait for me!" Shen Cheng shouted and crawled behind him.
In this way, the layer of aura on the little paper crane became smaller and smaller in Shen Cheng's eyes, and after a while, it completely disappeared into the depths of the forest.